Meaning not yet researched.
Mayer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,757 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,757 in 2021; #1,898 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Mayer in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,898 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,757.
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Mayer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,757 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 92 (2021).
In 2025, 83 US boys were named Mayer, making it the 1,898th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #1,848 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 88 boys named Mayer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,757, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #2,221 in 2015 and #3,565 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mayer in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 2,613 US babies have been given the name, 2.6% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 617 babies named Mayer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 785 US boys were named Mayer; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,579 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mayer ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #444 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Meir (4,612 babies since 1880), Mahir (1,658 babies since 1880) and Mayar (980 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mar, Maher and Mayur are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mar (1,188), Maher (1,156), Mayur (197), Maor (124), Mayre (117), Maheer (60), Mayor (26), Maier (24), Mahyar (15), Mauer (12), Maiyer (10), Maiar (9), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mayer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 39 | #444 | #506 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #565 | #755 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,615 | 83 | #1,898 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,775 | 88 | #1,848 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,088 | 88 | #1,824 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,890 | 81 | #1,932 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,651 | 92 | #1,757 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,687 | 81 | #1,842 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,959 | 70 | #2,075 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,308 | 75 | #1,970 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,543 | 60 | #2,230 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,104 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,221 |
| 2014 | — | — | 57 | #2,312 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,321 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,624 | 51 | #2,472 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,465 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,536 |
| 2009 | — | — | 48 | #2,612 |
| 2008 | — | — | 52 | #2,452 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,115 |
| 2006 | — | — | 48 | #2,529 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,596 |
| 2004 | — | — | 27 | #3,511 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,903 |
| 2002 | — | — | 40 | #2,496 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,198 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,264 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,158 |
| 1998 | — | — | 38 | #2,336 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,589 |
| 1996 | — | — | 33 | #2,411 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,735 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,912 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,110 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,647 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,413 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,413 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,752 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,414 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,792 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,200 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,406 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,774 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,636 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,783 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,072 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,908 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,981 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #3,021 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,864 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,670 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,584 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,756 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,670 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,302 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,226 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,371 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,490 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,847 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,829 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,156 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,256 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,780 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,797 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,617 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,046 |
| 1960 | — | — | 21 | #1,802 |
| 1959 | — | — | 18 | #1,951 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,819 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,160 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,590 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,754 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,098 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,486 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,282 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,812 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,565 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,201 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,552 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,833 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,880 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,115 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,794 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,800 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,424 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,783 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,347 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,022 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,316 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,111 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,587 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,154 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,780 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,378 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,722 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,652 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,746 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,703 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,032 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,591 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,876 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,391 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,399 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,135 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,782 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).